Test 9 · ★ · Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros g…
Old farmer in Somerset: "Gurt big rhino, eh? Proper job that cake were." ("gurt" = great, big.) How thick was the cake?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cake · What happens: be · To what, where: Proper job
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 76 «Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling), 3: How the Rhinoceros got his Skin» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: Old farmer in Somerset: "Gurt big rhino, eh?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 farmer | amod |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Somerset | case |
| 4 | Somerset | somerset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 farmer | nmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 rhino | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 rhino | punct |
| 7 | Gurt | Gurt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 rhino | compound |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rhino | amod |
| 9 | rhino | rhino | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 farmer | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 eh | punct |
| 11 | eh | eh | INTJ | _ | 9 rhino | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 farmer | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Proper job that cake were."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 job | amod |
| 2 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 cake | det |
| 4 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 job | obj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 job | cop |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 job | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 job | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Proper job | tree rules |
Sentence 3: ("gurt" = great, big.)
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 gurt | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gurt | punct |
| 3 | gurt | gurt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 gurt | punct |
| 5 | = | = | SYM | _ | 6 great | punct |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gurt | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 big | punct |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 great | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gurt | punct |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 gurt | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 4: How thick was the cake?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 thick | advmod |
| 2 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thick | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cake | det |
| 5 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thick | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 thick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cake | thick property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Three feet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 feet | nummod |
| 2 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Three feet across, with currants on top of it all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 feet | nummod |
| 2 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | across | across | ADV | _ | 2 feet | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 currants | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 currants | case |
| 6 | currants | currant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 feet | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 top | case |
| 8 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 currants | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 top | nmod |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 it | det |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Three feet thick and two feet across
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 feet | nummod |
| 2 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thick | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 feet | cc |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 feet | nummod |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thick | conj |
| 7 | across | across | ADV | _ | 3 thick | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Three inches
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 inches | nummod |
| 2 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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